When I was a little girl, I spent many days at my grandmother’s house while my parents worked. We tended to her garden, gossiped on the front porch, and baked together in the kitchen. I reminisce about those days with love, happiness, and comfort, as they are some of my…
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Smoking and higher body weight may push the immune system toward a more inflammatory profile in people with newly diagnosed multiple sclerosis (MS), while vitamin D and sunlight appear to be linked to less inflammation, a German study found. The findings overall “elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which modifiable…
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Among people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) and mild to moderate disability, fatigue severity was associated with a range of physical and psychological factors that may be important to consider when managing the symptom, a study found. Using patients’ responses to the Comprehensive Fatigue Assessment Battery for Multiple Sclerosis (CFAB-MS)…
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Increased memory loss over longer periods, known as accelerated long-term forgetting (ALF), is greater in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) than in healthy adults, a study found. Although people with MS performed similarly to healthy controls on short-term memory tests, they remembered significantly less information seven days later, suggesting…
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I’ve always tried to climb every ladder I’ve encountered throughout my career and life in general. In the military, there were nearly unlimited “ladders” to attempt, if you wanted to. My choices led me to multiple new ones, and while I may have started several rungs up at times, I…
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